I can’t imagine what life might be like for those who have never faced thoughts of suicide or periods of depression. But if offered such…
Living in America today is quite a bit like living with a terminal illness. Not that I have had a terminal illness (not to my…
I would love to begin this column with a remark such as, “Last night, I went to visit my friend so-and-so for a dinner in…
Yesterday, I took a walk over the Carquinez Bridge which spans the Carquinez Strait, rising where the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers empty into the…
At the Horizon School for Gifted Children it was announced that there would be an art contest. All the students would make something. A picture,…
The Storming Bohemian Punks The Muse: 2021 Edition #3—”Of Time And Hoarding, Mystiques And Mistakes”
Today, reading an article in the New York Times, I learned of the Nebra Sky Disk. This disk of metal, depicting constellations of the night…
I could write many thoughts for this column as we start off a New Year. A New Year should be a time of hope and…
Hello everybody, and hooray! It is 2021. And I will no longer be identifying these columns as “Covid Editions”—now that a new administration will be…
Written on 12/08/2020 It’s a humbling thought, but I don’t suppose that any of my readers, much loved though you are, particularly noticed that I…
Written on 11/25/2000 I grew up in a culturally Jewish home, but we were not religious. We sang some prayers (sort of—nobody knew more than…